Chicken-coop.



' 'w. B. GREEN.

CHICKEN COOP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6.1915.

1,177,861. Patented Apr. 4,1916.

if J) ]4 l Witnesses Inventor,

f. 6 Z 3 1 by I Z 0 Attorneys,

.UNETE STATES PATENT OEFKQE.

WILLIAM B. GREEN, 0F SHELBY, NORTH CAROLINA,

assieuonor oun-roun'rn 'ro DAVID A. BEAM, ONE-FOURTH T0 JGHN C. BEAIYI,'. AND ONE-FG URTH TO STEPHEN S. ROYSTER, ALL OF SHELBY, NORTH CAROLINA.

CHICKEN-COOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Application filed July 6, 1915. 7 Serial No. 38,227.

7 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, 1V ILLIAM B. GREEN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelby, in the county of Cleveland and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful. Chicken-Coop, of which the following is a specification. The device forming the subject-matter of this application is a collapsible chicken coop, and one object of the invention is to provide, in a device of the type above described, a single set of elements which form at once the sides of the coop and a pivotal connection between the top and the bottom of the coop whereby the coop may be collapsed.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for holding certain of the retaining elements of the coop against movement.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, with out departing from the spirit of the invention. r V

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a top plan; Fig. 2 is a side elevation; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section; Fig. 4 is a transverse section; Fig. 5 is a fragmental cross section showing a modified form of the invention.

The coop forming the subject matter of this application comprises a bottom 1 upon which is superposed and secured a marginal frame comprising end bars 2 and side bars 3. t

The top of the coop embodies a frame including side bars 5 end bars 4 and intermediate bars 6, the intermediate bars 6 being united by connecting rods 7. A lid 8 is provided, the same being united by hinge eyes 9 with one of the connecting rods 7. The lid 8 carries a securing device 10 of any plurality of parallel uprights 11 which serve, as well, as connections between the top and the bottom of the coop. The uprights 11 preferably are in the form of metal rods having eyes 12 at their ends. Securing elements 14 whichmay be bolts pass through the side bars 3 of'the marginal frame on the bottom 1 and engage the eyes 12 at the lower ends of the uprights 11. Mounted on the inner ends of the bolts 14 are nuts 15. These nuts, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, abut against the bottom 1 and are held against rotation thereby. It is necessary, therefore, merely to rotate the bolts 14 to position, the same threading into the nuts 15, and the latter being held against rotation by the bottom 1. Through the eyes 12 at the upper ends of the uprights 11 pass securing elements in the form of bolts 16, the bolts passing through the side bars 5 of the top of the coop. Nuts 17 are threaded onto the inner ends of the bolts 16 and bear against the inner edges of the side bars o of the top. To the top bars 4-5 is secured a closure 18 preferably in the form of wire netting and comprising diamond-shaped meshes. The closure 18 may be held in place by means of staples 19 or in any other suitable manner. It is to be observed that the apices of certain of the diamond-shaped meshes of the closure 18 engage the corners of the nuts on the upper bolts 16, and thus the nuts are held against rotation.

The invention comprises an endframe 21 bridged by a closure 22 which may be made of wire netting. By means of a hinge 23, the end frame 21 is connected to one of the end bars 2, so as to fold inwardly on top of the bottom 1.

The invention comprises an end frame 24 bridged by the closure 25 of netting or otherwise constructed. The end frame 24 is hinged to the other end bar 2, as shown at 26, so as to fold downwardly and outwardly, away from the bottom 1. The upper edges of the end frames 24 and 21 may be assembled with the end bars 4 of the top by means of locking devices 27 of anydesired sort.

Braces28 in the form of hooks are pivoted at their. lower ends as shown at 29 to the side bars 3 of the bottom frame, the side bars 5 of the top frame being provided with eyes 30 in which the free ends of thehooks 28 are received. Each side of the coop is shown as provided with a pair of the braces 28, the same being disposed in intersecting relation, but it will be understood that, if desired, one brace only at each side of the coop may be used.

ln'order to collapse the coop, the hooks 28 are disengaged at their upper ends from the eyes 30, the coop being collapsed, the top of the coop undersuch circumstances moving downwardly and to the left, the frame 21 having first been swung inwardly so as to lie above the bottom 1 and the end frame 2% having been swung downwardly and outwardly, away from the bottom of the coop. As the top of the coop moves downwardly, the same lies above the downwardly ex- 7 tended, lowered end frame :24.

It is to be observed that the uprights 11 exercise a double function inthat they constitute, at once, the sides of the coop and form also a connection betweenthe top and the bottom of the coop.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings, one of the side bars of the top frame is shown at 100, the numeral 101 indicating one of the side forming uprights. The uprights 101 are provided with rectangular arms 102 journaled in the bars 5 and provided at their ends with fingers 103, parallel to the body portions of the uprights and engaging the inner edges of the bars 101. The construction shown in Fig. 5 is carried out at the lower ends of the uprights 101, in connection with the bottom bars of the coop.

The side bars 5 of the top are provided with pivoted'connections in the form of books 62 adapted to coact with pins 63 on the side bars of the bottom-to hold the coop in a collapsed condition.- 'ihe'se hooks '62 extend across the braces 28, when the coop is folded and collapsed and serve to hold the braces in place. 7

Having thus describedthe invention, what is claimed is In a coop, cooperating elements comprising a top and a bottom; end walls coacting holding means on the other of said cooperating elements for receiving the connection; whereby the coop may be held collapsed, the

connection lying outside of the brace thereby to hold the brace against the coopwhen the coop is collapsed, when the brace is disengaged from the first specified holdingmeans, and when the connection is interengagcd with the last specified holding means.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM B. GREEN.

Witnesses ROY R. SrsK, C. P. ROLIE'IH.

Copies 01 this patent may be obtained for five ,eents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

